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You can find a brand new Steampunk story of mine in the latest issue of Tales of the Talisman. This would be my 5th appearance with David Lee Summer’s long-running genre periodical (formerly Hadrosaur Tales in the 90s). This particular edition, Volume 8, No. 4, is a “themed” issue. It’s all about Steampunk. All about airships, cogs and wheels, receptor rays and bubble guns, star liners and Victorian garb, and more. Table of contents below, along with a link for ordering. It should also be available for Kindle. Get your copy today.

And so this marks my 4th magazine appearance in a month. I won’t have any more till year’s end, so I hope everybody enjoys their summer, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t drop by. There will be free fiction (see Free Stories), free ebooks (short stories or novelettes), a new section on retro items, and more on the current book projects I’m working on, which will eventually lead us into 2014. You stick around; it’s going to be fun, you hear.

It’s finally summer, folks, and I’m back for what is my third appearance with a weird SF/alternate history tale of sorts to M-BRANE SF. Edited by Christopher Fletcher, M-Brane Scifi is not just an electronic monthly, a speculative magazine dedicated to the pulps. It’s available in PDF format for only $1.00 per issue ($12.00 annually); you can download it to your Amazon Kindles and other e-readers. Christopher Fletcher also provides a daily blog site, complete with news, reviews, and insight on subjects of science fiction and science fact. Hard SF, Sociological SF, Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Alternate History, authors new and old can all be found at M-BRANE SF.

Probably destined to become a semi-prozine down the road with a little bit of funding — they don’t make Hard SF or genuine SciFi news like this anymore, seriously — and available in an affordable monthly PDF format (12 dollars per year), M-BRANE Science Fiction. Issue #9, October 2009. This would be my 2ndappearance with the publication. They also have a print version available on Lulu for those interested. My story takes place on Mars fifty years into the future. They’ve featured such names as Rick Novy, Cat Rambo, Brandon Bell, and Cate Gardner among others.

He was a man among legends. He was a man born and raised in Brooklyn. He was a major influence to many, and as someone whose been practicing the Scifi craft a long time, I’d hoped to one day shake hands with him. He lived a good life, and he brought us LOCUS Magazine. At least the last thing he did was the one thing he loved most. He got to see his peers at Readercon…